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Niehoff, Robert; Mack, Greg – 1984
This report describes recent efforts to modify, test, and evaluate an experimental online database consisting of 15 vendor-supplied, controlled subject vocabularies or thesauri. The experimental database, called the Vocabulary Switching System (VSS), is designed to enhance search strategies and ultimately retrieval performance for users of online…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Databases, Search Strategies
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Strong, Gary W.; Drott, M. Carl – Information Processing and Management, 1986
Explains a new methodology for thesaurus design that is specifically geared for use by novice end-users, and describes a faceted hierarchical thesaurus organization which provides an economical information retrieval system in a corporate setting. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Databases, Design, Indexing, Information Retrieval
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Craven, Timothy C. – Information Processing and Management, 1984
Describes three major features of treatment of paradigmatic thesaural information in microcomputer-based concept network management system: use of simple graphic displays of thesaural or paradigmatic information (linktypes); use of thesaural information to generate indirect entries; capability of customizing index displays, including thesaural…
Descriptors: Databases, Display Systems, Information Retrieval, Information Systems
Sahli, Marilyn Sue – 1981
Analysis of current methods for achieving compatibility or convertibility between two or more indexing languages draws attention to the need for a switching language to establish equivalency between concepts, not terms. In order to examine the assumption of the conceptual equivalency of identical terms in the indexing languages of related subject…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Databases, Definitions, Education
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Romanos, Vasso Apostolidis; Fittipaldi, John J. – Online Review, 1987
Describes the development of a bibliographic information system designed to assist architecture/engineering firms under contract to the Army Corps of Engineers in locating regulations or guidelines for the planning, design, or construction of army facilities. A sample search of the system is appended. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Architecture, Databases, Engineering, Facility Guidelines
Herring, James E.; And Others – 1986
The first of two phases in this research project aimed at linking information technology (IT) with library information skills used the microcomputer as an information retrieval tool, and investigated ways of using curriculum-based keywords to help secondary school students define and maintain a clear sense of purpose when selecting, evaluating,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Course Evaluation, Databases, Foreign Countries
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McCain, Katherine W.; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1987
Assesses the impact of current coverage and indexing policies on MEDLINE's retrieval performance in the medical behavioral sciences literature by comparing retrievals in EXCERPTA MEDICA, PSYCHINFO, SCISEARCH, and SOCIAL SCISEARCH. Searches were made with descriptors, cited references, and natural language, and recall, precision, and novelty ratios…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Citations (References), Comparative Analysis, Databases
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Lopez, Manuel D. – Urban Education, 1989
Evaluates the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database. Summarizes ERIC's history and organization, and discusses criticisms concerning access, currency, and database content. Reviews role of component clearinghouses, indexing practices, thesaurus structure, international coverage, and comparative studies. Finds ERIC a valuable…
Descriptors: Abstracting, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis